Contractors to compile sex offenders’ registry

Contractors to compile sex offenders’ registry

Women safety; gender issue

News:

1. The Home Ministry has planned to outsource the preparation, design and maintenance of the proposed sex offenders’ registry to the private sector.

Important Facts

2. Features of the Sex Offenders Registry

• The Sex offenders Registry is a database comprising of data of sexual offenders- The data would contain biometric records of sex offenders across India
• The offenders would be classified on the basis of criminal history
• The data would be sorted for 15 years in case of those who pose low danger, 25 years posing moderate danger and lifetime for habitual offenders, violent criminals, convicts in gang rape and custodial rape.
• Current status of the offender as updated by the police station and nodal officer would be available
• The registry would also contain records of juvenile offenders and paedophiles
• Data on arrested and charge-sheeted offenders will be available only to law enforcement agencies
• However, the public can access to data for convicted offenders
• The sex offenders registry will be integrated with the Aadhaar database